James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned to Him

Re:James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned to Him by pherocity_ on Saturday December 13, 2014 @02:29AM (#8744520)

I didn't down vote, but the inherent bias in the test is a possible reason but even with that factored out, the relevance is a more reasonable objection. We're not talking the difference in between being able to grock quantum physics or not, we're talking a few questions on the exam. And IQ happens to be a pretty sweet bell curve, so if you're an average white guy, then you're still dumber than 49% of the black guys out there, and dumber than 54% of Chinese guys.

So we should give up on Africa because the average black guy didn't answer the 2 train question correctly? Should we also give up on Europe and North America because the white guys didn't answer that correctly either?

The use of this stat, were it even possible to be accurate, really only serves racists. No meaningful outcome could result from the number.

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Re:James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned to Him by waps on Saturday December 13, 2014 @04:23AM (#8744701)

> And IQ happens to be a pretty sweet bell curve, so if you're an average white guy, then you're still dumber than 49% of the black guys out there, and dumber than 54% of Chinese guys.

Those numbers are not accurate given the data on the wikipedia page. The first number is about double the real value, the second needs about 6 percentage points added to it for it to be accurate.

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Re:James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned to Him by pherocity_ on Friday December 19, 2014 @01:27PM (#8773598)

I was making the numbers up, because we cannot exclude and accurately asses racial and other socioeconomic conditions. So the numbers on Wikipedia do not tell any more truth than me making them up. The point, is that whatever the numbers are, they're irrelevant as nothing useful can be done with the data.

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